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These cameras had some frustrating faults. My friend's master's project relied on their facial recognition cameras. Unfortunately my friend was black and they

These cameras had some frustrating faults. My friend's master's project relied on their facial recognition cameras. Unfortunately my friend was black and they didn't work at all on his face. He needed his white/asian friends to help him test his application.

octopaulus 5y ago
Why didn't he just put makeup ?
- astrea 5y ago
  Ah you're the guy that submits PRs that just changes a failing test instead of the code it's testing
  - octopaulus 5y ago
    Ok techbro
    - dang 5y ago
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  - dang 5y ago
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    - meadowy 5y ago
      Hey dang, is Opera browser's IP address range banned? Looks like shadowban over here.
    - meadowy 5y ago
      Hi dang. Is there a way to delete my 2 comments in this page?
pjmorris 5y ago
The documentary 'Coded Bias' goes in to some depth on this problem in facial recognition and on the wider problems of the social impact of biased algorithms.
Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
But isn't it due to the ML models rather than the camera? Facial recognition models were/are? disastrously biased. Amazon's Rekognition detected darker skinned women as men or children in our application in 2017(we used it to prevent profile photo having children in our privacy focused dating app), Amazon rep said they were working to fix that but doesn't seem like it as of 2019[1]. [1] https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Technology/wireStory/researchers-amazon-face-detection-technology-shows-bias-60630589 https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Technology/wireS...

octopaulus 5y ago

Why didn't he just put makeup ?

astrea 5y ago
Ah you're the guy that submits PRs that just changes a failing test instead of the code it's testing
- octopaulus 5y ago
  Ok techbro
  - dang 5y ago
    We've banned this account for repeatedly posting unsubstantive comments and breaking the site guidelines. Creating accounts to do that will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 5y ago
  "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - meadowy 5y ago
    Hey dang, is Opera browser's IP address range banned? Looks like shadowban over here.
  - meadowy 5y ago
    Hi dang. Is there a way to delete my 2 comments in this page?

pjmorris 5y ago

The documentary 'Coded Bias' goes in to some depth on this problem in facial recognition and on the wider problems of the social impact of biased algorithms.

Abishek_Muthian 5y ago

But isn't it due to the ML models rather than the camera? Facial recognition models were/are? disastrously biased. Amazon's Rekognition detected darker skinned women as men or children in our application in 2017(we used it to prevent profile photo having children in our privacy focused dating app), Amazon rep said they were working to fix that but doesn't seem like it as of 2019[1]. [1] https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Technology/wireStory/researchers-amazon-face-detection-technology-shows-bias-60630589 https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Technology/wireS...